Industrial, organic, and original exhibit at ArtSpace Maynard

If good fences make good neighbors, good neighbors – if they are artists – can fuse their talents to express a new vision.

Margaret Smith

If good fences make good neighbors, good neighbors – if they are artists – can fuse their talents to express a new vision.

Maynard artist and photographer Erik Hansen has a studio next door to that of Lexington sculptor Bill Cohn at ArtSpace Maynard, a complex of artists' studios and exhibit space.

They decided to collaborate on “Industrial / Organic – Echoes of Man in a New World,” to create a landscape of myth and machinery and poetically, the sensuality of living things.

Some works represent their combined efforts, while others are the artists’ respective creations.

In totality, the exhibit is a doorway into a world where life grows out of seemingly impossible places – and beckoning the viewer to come closer, or possibly step inside.

‘Industrial / Organic-Echoes of Man in a New World’ is on view at ArtSpace Maynard, 63 Summer St., Maynard, June 3-27. Opening reception Wednesday, June 6, 5 to 8 p.m. Exhibit and reception are free. For more information, visit www.artspacemaynard.com.

Margaret Smith is Arts and Calendar editor at GateHouse Media New England’s Northwest Unit. E-mail her at msmith@cnc.com.